Irina Petrovna Anohina

Background

Irina Petrovna Anohina was born on 24 May 1932 in the town of Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Federation).

Education

Irina Petrovna Anohina graduated with honors from the Faculty of Medicine of the 1st Moscow Medical University named after I.M. Sechenov in 1956. While being a student she was interested in psychiatry and was a member of a students' club. In 1956 - 1958 Irina Petrovna was studying in a psychiatry residency in the group of academician E.A. Popov by the Faculty of Psychiatry named after S.S. Korsakov of the 1st Moscow Medical Institute named after I.M. Sechenov.

Career

In 1958 Irina Petrovna Anohina started working in the laboratory of pathophysiology of higher nervous activity of the Central Research Institute of Forensic Psychiatry named after V.P. Serbsky as a junior researcher and from 1962 continued as a senior scientist.

She defended her thesis for the Candidate's degree "The role of a stem reticular formation in the emergence of the motor retardation in cases of certain illnesses and in animals under experiment" in 1962.

From 1966 to 1991 Irina Petrovna was a head of a psychopharmacology labarotary of the Central Research Institute of Forensic Psychiatry named after V.P. Serbsky.

In 1969 Irina Petrovna Anohina defended her doctorate thesis on "Neurochemical brain mechanisms disruption in schizophrenia".

Irina Petrovna Anohina has been a Professor since 1981.

Irina Petrovna is a deputy assistant of the chairperson of the Scientific Council for Addictology of RAMS and the Ministry of Medicine of the Russian Federation, deputy assistant of the chairperson of the Section for Addictology of the Scientific Council of the Ministry of Medicine of the Russian Federation, chairperson of the task group of the Scientific Council of RAMS and the Ministry of Medicine of the Russian Federation "Biomedical problems of addictology".

Achievements

• At the beginning of the 1980s Irina Petrovna Anohina contributed greatly to the establishment of the scientific specialty "Addictology" in Russia and organizing of the Institute of Biomedical Problems of Alcoholism, which opened in 1958 and has been the National Research Center of Addictology of the Health Ministry of the Russian Federation until present time.
  
  Irina Petrovna Anohina established a scientific school of biomedical problems of addictology. Irina Petrovna Anohina's theoretical, experimental and applied development results are summarized in more than 390 published scientific works, which have been broadly accepted both in Russia and abroad. She is a co-author of 13 patents.

Membership

In 1984 Irina Petrovna was elected as a corresponding member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of USSR, in 1995 – as a full member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences.

She is member of the Russian Section of the International Academy of Sciences, member of the International and European societies for biomedical research of alcoholism, member of the International Society for brain studies, member of the American Psychosomatic Society, member of the editorial board of "The Questions of Addictology", "Addictology" and "Psychopharmacology and biological addictology" magazines, member of editorial boards of foreign magazines - "Alcohol and alcoholism", "Alcoholism: experimental and clinical reserch" and "Addiction biology".

• Russian Section of the International Academy of Sciences

• International Society for brain studies

• American Psychosomatic Society

• Academy of Medical Sciences of USSR

• Russian Academy of Medical Sciences

Interests

• Music, literature, fine arts

Connections

Father:

Anohin Petr Kuzmich

Anohin Petr Kuzmich was a RAS and RAMS academician.

Mother:

Anohina Anastasia Petrovna

Anohina Anastasia Petrovna was a Doctor of Medicine.

Spouse:

Denisov Vladimir Vasilievich

Denisov Vladimir Vasilievich was born in 1928.

Son:

Anohin Konstantin Vladimirovich

Anohin Konstantin Vladimirovich was born in 1957. He is corresponding member of RAMS.